William Inges Picnic initiates our encounter with 1950s America. Sloan Wilsons Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, McCarthys HUAC hearings, and Betty Crockers cookbook provide other textual suggestions, while the emergence of a media circus (primarily through the advent of television) motivates our appropriation of circus structure and physical vocabulary. Abstracted behavior, gesture, and dance forms integrate into spoken scenes of paranoia, suburban society, and the undercurrent of anxiety.
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